Quotes About Foreign

They seemed to be removed from her by more than just language. French people leading French lives. Why was it that anything you couldn't readily understand became mysterious and glamorous?

The air was a delicate cocktail of things foreign and familiar; both damply green and faintly musty; as sea-soaked as the oysters, as crisply refreshing as the champagne.

This contrast between foreign evil and homegrown nobility was hugely important in the rebuilding of national identities after the war, and one of the principal ways in which Europe's battered nations chose to lick their wounds.

However, foreign observers were struck by how often even large Indian cities resembled immense camps, with people grouped around the people they served.

My dog Millie knows more about foreign affairs than these two bozos.

More and more of our imports come from overseas.

This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating.

Lo que sí, debía de estar soñando como nunca. Uno sueña más en camas ajenas que en la suya, porque tiene más perturbaciones físicas que verosimilizar.

Ante la burocracia somos todos extranjeros, (...) la burocracia es, en esencia (y en eso radica su utilidad), un código ajeno.

In my experience, those for whom war is lucrative are rarely satisfied. For them, war is opportunity, not hardship or sorrow. After all, it is rarely their sons who lie in unmarked graves on foreign soil.

Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.

Some foreign states will act against a dictatorship only to gain their own economic, political, or military control over the country.

Further, democratic negotiators, or foreign negotiation specialists accepted to assist in the negotiations, may in a single stroke provide the dictators with the domestic and international legitimacy that they had been previously denied because of their seizure of the state, human rights violations, and brutalities. Without that desperately needed legitimacy, the dictators cannot continue to rule indefinitely.

These foreign cunts've goat trouble wi the Queen's fuckin English, ken.

If nuclear power makes them dangerous, a sincere friendship through trade will be many times better than an insecure overlordship, based on the hated supremacy of a foreign spiritual power, which, once it weakens ever so slightly, can only fall entirely and leave nothing substantial behind except an immortal fear and hate.

El tema de la noche fue la intervención de la CIA en Latinoamérica, que contribuyó a derrocar democracias y reemplazarlas por el tipo de gobierno totalitario que ningún norteamericano toleraría.

I wish to be clear: all foreign investments will be safe in Zimbabwe.

In Italy, you're in your comfort zone when it comes to language, lifestyle, your habits and preparations, and moving abroad is not easy. It's not easy to carry over your own ideas about football, your own methods. You have to get everything across in a different language, and that wastes a lot of energy.

You're dealing with all these foreign agents, foreign brushes, and different time zones. So, you have to put just as much work into taking that makeup off as you do into putting it on.

That strange blend of the commercial traveller, the missionary and the barbarian conqueror, which was the American abroad.

Ours is a sovereign nation Bows to no foreign will But whenever they cough in Washington They spit on Parliament Hill.

Remember that when an employee enters your office, he is in a strange land.

If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is forever England.

Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.